Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
CRMEP is an independent educational association based in London. We organize events, publications and study groups. We provide open access to a wide range of writing and lectures in post-Kantian philosophy and critical theory, including Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and the critique of the European tradition. Support the CRMEP
Events & Lectures
Lectures and seminars are free but registration is required.
Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Announcing dates for CRMEP Public Lectures in Autumn/Winter 2026-27:
15 October, 29 October, 12 November, 26 November, 10 December and 21 January 2027
Kings Cross, London, Thursdays 18.00–20.00
Speakers: Éric Alliez, Howard Caygill, Peter Hallward, Catherine Malabou, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford
Full details to be announced with registration opening on 1 September 2026
CRMEP Public Lectures, Autumn 2006, 1: Howard Caygill, ‘Becoming Tree: Artaud's Three Years in the Forest'
In his letter of 23rd April 1947 to Pierre Loeb, Artaud evokes the return of a time 'when man was a tree without organs or function'. This talk will explore the implications of this proposition for Artaud's 'body without organs' as 'human tree', reading it in the context of the forest shamanism of his work on the Tarahumaras and the marks on wood of the Ivry Notebooks.
Books & Pamphlets
Promise & perdition in the thought of Gillian Rose
The essays collected in this eighth volume from CRMEP Books derive from a conference on the thought of the British sociologist and philosopher Gillian Rose, held at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, London, 18–19 June 2025. Interest in Rose’s wide-ranging body of critical work in the sociology and philosophy of modernity has grown significantly since her early death in 1995. In the wake of the publication of a Penguin Modern Classics edition of Rose’s Love’s Work (2024), along with some of her undergraduate lectures on critical theory from the University of Sussex at the end of the 1970s (Marxist Modernism, Verso, 2024), this thirty-year anniversary event set out to explore the play of promise and perdition – from which Love’s Work itself departed – across the full span of her writings.
Articles in this volume
Recordings
‘Of Another Nihilism: On Jacques Rancière’s Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov’ (Catherine Malabou)
A talk delivered at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent's Street, London W1
'Foucault & the Woman in the Rorschach Dress' (Howard Caygill)
This is a recording of a lecture given at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, on 20 November 2025: ‘The Woman in the Rorschach Dress: Foucault at Münsterlingen'
‘Process Metaphysics & Promiscuous Realism: Dupré's Philosophy of Biology’ (Stella Sandford)
This is a recording of a lecture given at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, on 6 November 2025: ‘Process Metaphysics and “Promiscuous Realism”: Reflections on John Dupré's Philosophy of Biology’